Showing posts with label Detectives - Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detectives - Fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Emil and the detectives

Summary: Young Emil is robbed on his first real railway journey of money entrusted to him by his hard-working mother for the relatives he is to stay with in Berlin. A gang of boys about his own age come to his aid, and a thrilling adventure full of surprises ensues as they use their wits to devise a wonderfully simple but practical trick to capture the thief. With every detail clearly drawn - from the tiresome business of getting into best clothes for the journey, down to the final anxiety as to what shall be done with a gloriously unexpected reward

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Friday Barnes, girl detective

 Other Title: Girl detective
Summary: Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy. On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school is actually a hotbed of crime. She's soon investigating everything from disappearing homework to the Yeti running around the school swamp. That's when she's not dealing with her own problem - Ian Wainscott, the handsomest boy in school, who inexplicably hates Friday and loves nasty pranks. Can Friday solve Highcrest Academy's many strange mysteries, including the biggest mystery of all - what's the point of high school

Monday, 10 June 2013

The Awful Pawful

When jack and Foxie return from holidays, they can't smell any dogs! Something terrier-able has happened to the dogs of Doggeroo.
Jack finds them hiding under beds, and he knows it's a case for the dog with the nose who knows.
Why are the dogs so terrier-fied?
And who has scratched their noses?
But soon Jack is hiding under the bed, too. So how will he solve the case of  - THE AWFUL PAWFUL?